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Post by melbella on Jun 11, 2022 2:46:04 GMT
So excited for you, can we know the details in particular re the PC and the monitor?
Here's the PC short blurb: Asus brand, Intel Core i7-11700KF - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - 2TB HDD + 512GB SSD. It comes with Win 11 Home but I upgraded to Pro so I can control when/how to update. It's not super duper top of the line but should last me a good while. The monitor is a curved 27" Samsung, and the KB glows pretty colors.
The best part is, I will no longer be my own tech support.
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Post by dazk on Jun 11, 2022 3:27:23 GMT
So excited for you, can we know the details in particular re the PC and the monitor?
Here's the PC short blurb: Asus brand, Intel Core i7-11700KF - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - 2TB HDD + 512GB SSD. It comes with Win 11 Home but I upgraded to Pro so I can control when/how to update. It's not super duper top of the line but should last me a good while. The monitor is a curved 27" Samsung, and the KB glows pretty colors.
The best part is, I will no longer be my own tech support. Nice, that's some good gear, mine is custom built but I have an Asus MB and Graphics card and love them but my card unfortunately is now miles behind yours it's just a 1070Ti. Can't imagine with things how they are ATM how I'll be able to manage to afford a new PC but looking forward to it none the less. My PC, KB&M all glow and spin different colours, I love it for all the good it does. Monitor sounds good. What game are you going to play first on it?
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Post by dragontartare on Jun 11, 2022 3:47:33 GMT
It's not super duper top of the line but should last me a good while. I dunno, any GPU ending with "80" sounds pretty top of the line to me Congrats on the shiny new companion! I second dazk's question: what game will you play first?
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Post by melbella on Jun 11, 2022 4:12:15 GMT
I second dazk's question: what game will you play first? No idea. MELE is of course a prime candidate, but it's a huuuuge dl so will take about a day to install. I might start with something smaller that I've played on this computer in order to see how much better it looks.
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Post by dazk on Jun 11, 2022 7:29:41 GMT
It's not super duper top of the line but should last me a good while. I dunno, any GPU ending with "80" sounds pretty top of the line to me Congrats on the shiny new companion! I second dazk's question: what game will you play first? And starts with a "30", until the 40 series come out I think that's as good as you can get. melbella does the monitor have G-Synch or Free Synch? Play MELE, you know you want to or play MET then MELE to see the difference with MET and then MELE.
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Post by Primitive God on Jun 11, 2022 7:42:52 GMT
Helped Thane track down his son.. god Shepard is hilarious in this mission. One of my favourite missions in the triolgy. My Shepard got his hands a bit bloody during this little quest. Beating mouse and khelam and than executing tahleed he's got a lot of chaotic evil in him 😁
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Post by themikefest on Jun 11, 2022 11:13:17 GMT
It's not super duper top of the line but should last me a good while. I dunno, any GPU ending with "80" sounds pretty top of the line to me Congrats on the shiny new companion! I second dazk's question: what game will you play first? I purchased the same card a short time ago. Compared to the one I replaced, this one is big. Mine is 8gb. Looks good. Runs good. The price I paid was under $400
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Post by themikefest on Jun 11, 2022 11:15:49 GMT
Helped Thane track down his son.. god Shepard is hilarious in this mission. One of my favourite missions in the triolgy. My Shepard got his hands a bit bloody during this little quest. Beating mouse and khelam and than executing tahleed he's got a lot of chaotic evil in him 😁 Very good. Very good. You are doing good work. Keep it up.
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Post by themikefest on Jun 11, 2022 12:52:29 GMT
For the last day or two, I tried using a hair mod to see if everything is working right. It didn't. I kept getting a bald looking Shepard. I downloaded an early version of the save editor because the updated version wouldn't download. After reading some comments from people with the same problem, I was able to download the updated version. I still ended up with the bald head. After downloading another hair mod, I decided to run the game from the mod manager. It worked. I went back to the first hair mod to download the hairstyle I liked. I will try downloading a few more to make sure those work before starting my playthrough of doom.
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Post by dragontartare on Jun 11, 2022 16:18:44 GMT
I dunno, any GPU ending with "80" sounds pretty top of the line to me Congrats on the shiny new companion! I second dazk's question: what game will you play first? The price I paid was under $400 Whose small child did you sacrifice to make that happen?
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Post by themikefest on Jun 11, 2022 16:24:42 GMT
The price I paid was under $400 Whose small child did you sacrifice to make that happen? I apologize. What I purchased was the 3050 not the 3080. I just checked the receipt from amazon. Purchased on April 29. My bad.
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Post by melbella on Jun 11, 2022 16:29:16 GMT
does the monitor have G-Synch or Free Synch? G-sync
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Post by dazk on Jun 12, 2022 0:34:56 GMT
does the monitor have G-Synch or Free Synch? G-sync My monitor is G-Synch as well and I couldn't get it to work and the solution was to use a "Display Port" cable which it came with not an HDMI cable. You also need to use the Nvidia Control Panel to set some stuff up and it is stupidly under "Manage 3D Settings" IIRC.
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Post by melbella on Jun 12, 2022 0:46:27 GMT
My monitor is G-Synch as well and I couldn't get it to work and the solution was to use a "Display Port" cable which it came with not an HDMI cable. You also need to use the Nvidia Control Panel to set some stuff up and it is stupidly under "Manage 3D Settings" IIRC.
I'm hoping since this is basically off the shelf that all that stuff will already be set up and I just have to plug everything in and then GOGOGO!
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Post by dazk on Jun 12, 2022 0:54:40 GMT
My monitor is G-Synch as well and I couldn't get it to work and the solution was to use a "Display Port" cable which it came with not an HDMI cable. You also need to use the Nvidia Control Panel to set some stuff up and it is stupidly under "Manage 3D Settings" IIRC.
I'm hoping since this is basically off the shelf that all that stuff will already be set up and I just have to plug everything in and then GOGOGO! I doubt the monitor will be plugged in, just if you have the option use the Display Port cable not an HDMI one.
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Post by themikefest on Jun 12, 2022 1:36:02 GMT
My computer is hooked up to my TV, my 65inch 4k 120hz TV. A TV I bought to use for when I get, now have, a ps5. With my computer, I decided to plug into the tv since it was capable of 4k whereas the monitor I have for my other computer isn't 4k. Plus my TV is big. excellent. I've downloaded a few more mod for LE1. I won't download any for LE2/3 until I start playing those. I spent x amount of time trying to figure out taking screenshots. I finally ran into a comment saying if the game is in fullscreen mode, a screenshot cannot happen. At least when using steam. I was able to use photo mode and take screenshots through my video card, but it would put that in some extension I had to look up to know what it was. What I did is change to borderless in the game. I can take screenshots within steam. excellent. Here are some pics. This is Commander Shepard. For some reason her parents decided to name her Commander. Coincidence? I will do a playthrough with my Shepard in my signature later. This current Shepard is more to make sure mods work correctly. I finally will be able to play the Pinnacle Station dlc. Since it wasn't available for the ps3 and the remaster, I downloaded the mod. excellent.
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Post by colfoley on Jun 12, 2022 11:11:24 GMT
ME 1Essentially finished up Noveria and did some things. I guess the big thing was always get into a tip toeing around mood because of that one time that I went around and got Ventrallis and his people killed completly by accident. Fortunatley it was dropping many auto saves anyways but I through in a few manual ones just in case. Of course nothing came from it but then this whole thing has also led to what has been becoming watching the paragon meter and just not sure I realized how often you don't get actual morality points for the decision at all *waits expectantly for renegade points to come in after being a dick...journal updates*. And while obviously I was able to pull it off at one point but this is really the flaw of this kind of game design as I have harped on before. Paragon and Renegade, despite being a fairly good idea, still was pretty much just a good and evil meter, so to do an 'evil playthrough' would pretty much mean you would be doing pretty dickish things like genociding the Rachni or just slaughtering mind controlled civillians. Though at least in the latter case it can be argued they did give you an easy choice so it became a non choice 'muhahaha' choice. ME 2 did a better job at it, then ME 3 did worse, and MEA wisely dropped this nonsense entirely. But yeah and of course the other thing about this is...again like Origins...it seems inconsistently applied. Randomly helping scientists nets you 24 points apparently...which is something you should do...though I guess the alternative could have led to you slaughtering a bunch of people so maybe that does track. So from there had some fun moments. Led by I saw Garrus's silloutte against a wall which looked kind of creepy...opened the door...and there he was. Also got into a neat fire fight in the power core...but then of course I got lost.
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Post by Primitive God on Jun 13, 2022 1:23:56 GMT
I left David archer with Cerberus 😬 get off my back I had too, I'm playing a pro Cerberus ends justify the means Shepard. Still got to pimp slap Gavin so that made it worth while.
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Post by colfoley on Jun 13, 2022 11:35:52 GMT
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So this is a bit of a funny story...but there are these scenes where Garrus reeats the same thing when you go to him for while like the whole conversation. Well went to go chat with him and thought that this was one of those conversations so I started furiously hitting the skip button furiously and then realized I had not gotten through that conversation yet so I was prepared to be a mistake...but fortunatley this was one of the repeatable conversations so all i had to do was start the thing over again and start chatting with him again.
Also had a genuine jump scare in the game. During the Armstrong Cluster mission against the Geth once more I was being very careful because I remembered some shannengans were happening. Though there were no geth outside...but a lot of husk containers...so I knew what was going to happen so snuck through and got them all killed...but I forgot that apparently the Geth show up in the base after you clear it out. I was minding my own business just looting and turned around and GETH DESTROYER RIGHT IN MY FACE SHIELDS DOWN. Gave me a friggin heart attack.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Jun 13, 2022 16:36:22 GMT
B Mass Effect 1So this is a bit of a funny story...but there are these scenes where Garrus reeats the same thing when you go to him for while like the whole conversation. Well went to go chat with him and thought that this was one of those conversations so I started furiously hitting the skip button furiously and then realized I had not gotten through that conversation yet so I was prepared to be a mistake...but fortunatley this was one of the repeatable conversations so all i had to do was start the thing over again and start chatting with him again. Also had a genuine jump scare in the game. During the Armstrong Cluster mission against the Geth once more I was being very careful because I remembered some shannengans were happening. Though there were no geth outside...but a lot of husk containers...so I knew what was going to happen so snuck through and got them all killed...but I forgot that apparently the Geth show up in the base after you clear it out. I was minding my own business just looting and turned around and GETH DESTROYER RIGHT IN MY FACE SHIELDS DOWN. Gave me a friggin heart attack. Goes t o sho on eshould nevre underestimate the Geth. I always mak esue reverything is dead usually befoe rI start looting. Reminds me of the lootres in ME2 when recruiting Mordin.
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Post by colfoley on Jun 15, 2022 11:23:32 GMT
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Its kind of weird that Kaidan and Ashley and Shepard acted like they had no idea what Cerberus was when we dealt with them for dealing with the listening posts...
Started Bringing Down the Sky next up after that continuing on with the run up to the Virmire arc stuff. I was also just thinking it odd that...oh yes so Kate Bowman is getting threatened with presumably her brother...not sure I ever knew that before but that is also the implication...and the Batarian was there and threatening them with trying to get Shepard's name and location. Which I always thought well she had no way of knowing...so couldn't have told Balak anyways. But the thing is Shepard is hearing all this so she has an open com line. So I thought it would have been hella interesting had Shepard been all like 'I'm Commander Shepard...' with then dialogue depending on your background between the two because so many of the backgrounds are wrapped up and involving the Batarians. Just imagine the Batarians kind of getting quakey in their boots because the Butcher of Torfan just showed up at their front door...and maybe Balak would have had another reason to be enraged. This kind of is straying into pure wish fullfillment territory but it would just have been fascinating to add that little bit extra flavor to the whole situation. Give Balak a connection to Shepard. Give him a reason to want to turn this into more then a simple slave run. Now obviously Abby is the Butcher of Torfan but could probably work in any of the backgrounds.
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Post by themikefest on Jun 15, 2022 14:34:24 GMT
Went to Therum. Completed Feros with all colonists alive. Jeong took a dirtnap. Shaila lives. Picked up several achievements. Got Wrexs' armor. Dr. Heart aka Saleon is dead. Completed other side missions.
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Post by themikefest on Jun 16, 2022 15:31:13 GMT
Cpmpleted rogue vi and Bring down the sky dlc. Kate lives. Balak will be seen again in ME3
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Post by Rascoth on Jun 16, 2022 19:49:30 GMT
MELE. I loaded my insanity pt that I started soon after MELE came out (haven't played MELE since). I wasn't really far into it, barely finished sweeping Citadel after first visit. I decided to hit Feros first, since I didn't plan to pass check with Ethan Jeong in this pt. I barely stepped in and started to experience visual bugs I've never seen in my many pts of original trilogy. Shepard being such a good sniper she can aim at herself. Flying Overload: Then I ran into ever annoying to fight on insanity bullet sponges... I mean Krogan. I killed them... and then they reset. Full health and all. Yeah, I'm done for a day. And I might need to rethink my insanity pt for now. At least till I get a feel where I can run into more "surprises" like that.
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Post by colfoley on Jun 17, 2022 10:57:40 GMT
Cpmpleted rogue vi and Bring down the sky dlc. Kate lives. Balak will be seen again in ME3 Well how is that for an awkward coincedence.... I too finished Bringing Down the Sky today. I actually have to admit that the whole final set piece in the DLC is actually one of the best battle bits in the entire game. Though at times the Batarians might be a bit tanky...but then does not seem to be a match for level 30 Shepard with fully armed kits. Plus it is also one of the best playgrounds for sniping in the entire game as well given how much reliance the game has on the Mako. But alas Kate did not survive the attempt and Abby beat Balak to within an inch of his life... Which then led me to something quite interesting. Now I was quite certain I had Abby in a medium set of Colosus armor in the old game so I was a bit on the eager side to get to it maybe for this playthrough, right now she has heavy. Well I did not realize that, maybe the only way, of getting that armor is to get it from Simon in Bringing Down the Sky so I chose heavy armor on a lark and got heavy colusus. Well this has led me to takign more pics this PT because the Colusus armor is pretty awesome and the opprotunity did present itself. Thing is that if I got into the Medium armor that could waste the opprotunity...except the Medium armor might not look the best afterall...so weird bullet dodged...maybe? From there though onto Virmire. Felt really weird to start Virmire and like last playthrough I also left off exactly at the landing sight. Virmire of course is always fun to. Well until the you know...
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